I wrote a little script to do this directly look at realRip for more informations. To use it simply call “realRip.py stream.ram” or “realRip.py http://XXXX/stream.ram” (it will download the ram file and parse it..)

mkfifo create a socalled ‘named pipe’ (see http://www2.linuxjournal.com/article/2156 for a tutorial). mplayer writes to that pipe while lame (at the same time) reads from it and encodes the file on the fly.

Hi, I found an archive of an old radio show I want to listen to, but it’s only available in “.smil” . These streams are playable in Real Player, but extremely slow to load. I’d like to convert these to .mp3.